Re: Please Help! I want to turn my old PC into a File Server

Access does not need to be installed on the file server.

Yes, all files need occasional compacting.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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"Nikki" <Nikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your info, AnandaSim. I just want to make sure that I
understand
it right. If I want to turn my old PC into a File Server and save my BE
database there, I do need to install Access program in the old PC, don't
I?

And one more question, now I save BE database on my PC, not old PC and
it's
slow when we use FE database at the same time. From what I read, I do need
to
compact BE and FE database files, is that correct? Thanks again for your
kind
support.
--
Nikki


"AnandaSim" wrote:

On Sep 25, 8:06 am, Nikki <Ni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi my company is very small--we have only 3-4 employees and I have one
old PC
which is Windows 2000 and 3 new Windows Vista 2007 computers. If I
want to
turn the old PC into a "File Server", is it possible that when I link
all of
3 computers to the File Server then they can share files together? Do I
have

Yes. they can share files and printers.

Are they already connected with network cable?

any problem with that because of old version and new version of
Microsoft? (I

No, there should be no problem with different versions of Windows (in
general).
BTW, Microsoft is the brand, Windows is the product.

know that I have to add memory and network card to the old PC but "Do I
have
to buy Vista and install it in the old PC as well?") I want to save my
Access
(2007)database backend in the File Server so other 3 new computers can
share
the database but I'm not sure that I can do it. I'm new with Access and
computer network so I do appreciate for any suggestion. Thanks

I remember in another thread, SteveM and myself were discussing
sharing files using Vista and Access? Did you manage to complete the
task? If that worked with Vista, that should also work with your old
machine.

There are newsgroups which discuss Windows networking and there are
websites and articles on the web that teach you some stuff.

hth

Ananda




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